On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:17:53PM -0500, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > So -e does it for echo. I would never think of that. > > > What I really want to do is the following: > > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > msg=$(msg)\n"new message" > > cat msg |mail -s REPORT [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This time \n doesn't work, everything is sent in the mail in one long line. > That's my real headache.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ msg=hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ msg="${msg}\nnew message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ echo -e $msg hi new message -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list